fireclown:Wasn't there video of one of the Syrian resistance leaders eating the heart of a slain enemy? In the last few weeks?

No way, that was a government plant. Are those guns on the ground yet for our new Glorious AlliesTM? They need them now to defend themselves from a government who went all tyrannical. Why aren't they there?? Why do you hate freedom???

Lexx:We've got a dictator committing atrocities, a fiercely divided internal resistance which has been decimated by the dictator's forces, and a whole bunch of jihadists-for-hire brought in by other countries who stand to gain from Syria's chaos. The dictator's been proven to use bio-chemical weapons in limited engagements, and the rebels are strongly rumored to have used them as well. The rebels also are pretty much confirmed to be engaging in rape & cannibalism.

This is one of those rare cases where the correct answer is "both side are just about equally bad. Send the red cross in with humanitarian aid, but don't actually enable either side".

GRCooper:Lexx: We've got a dictator committing atrocities, a fiercely divided internal resistance which has been decimated by the dictator's forces, and a whole bunch of jihadists-for-hire brought in by other countries who stand to gain from Syria's chaos. The dictator's been proven to use bio-chemical weapons in limited engagements, and the rebels are strongly rumored to have used them as well. The rebels also are pretty much confirmed to be engaging in rape & cannibalism.

This is one of those rare cases where the correct answer is "both side are just about equally bad. Send the red cross in with humanitarian aid, but don't actually enable either side".

jaybeezey:garkola: There's no particular reason for the US to get involved for Syria because realistically, there's no good outcome. Align with rebels? Why? There's no guarantee that they'll be any better than Assad. Align with Assad? Why?

Let them kill each other, and say "we will deal with whichever government is the legitimate government of Syria."

This. You start giving these guys armor killing tech and you damn well better believe it will be used on allies back in Iraq. I like the revolution, i just think that in this case the revolting are just as revolting as the revoltee.

First off, we need a lot of scarfs, purple ones for the regime supporters, green ones for the rebels. This way we can tell them apart.Secondly, we need to stay the hell away from Syria. There are no good guys to root for, and no good will to be earned.

Reasonable foreign policy should be self interested. I don't think it's in the United States' interest to funnel weapons to unknown parties that include radical jihadists. That hasn't worked out very well the last few times.